Family Group: C.68B-1950

Titles

Family Group

Maker(s)

Factory: Naples Royal Porcelain Factory
Factory: Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea
Modeller: Taglioni, Filippo

Entities

• Figure group

Categories

• Hard-paste porcelain

Description

Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels. A gentleman and his wife stand with a dog and their little boy between them on a low oval base.

Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, dark green, yellow, flesh pink, red, grey, greyish-brown, dark brown, and black enamels. The glazed underside is concave, and has a rounded rectangular ventilation hole on the viewer’s right.
The oval base has rounded rocky sides and a flat top, and is coloured pale grey. The father stands on the left, supported by a low tree stump or rock. A small dog sits beside him. The mother is on the right and their little boy is between them. The father stands on his left leg and has his right leg forward; his right hand is tucked into his coat and he looks towards his wife. He wears a greyish-brown wig with a queue, a dark green coat with partly red collar, yellow breeches, white stockings and black buckled shoes, and holds a black hat in his left arm. The mother has long wavy greyish-brown hair, and wears a white cap with a red ribbon round it, a yellow coat with dark brown spots and dark brown fur edging and collar, a white dress, and pale blue shoes. She looks towards her husband, and has her left hand inside a dark brown fur muff and her right hand over it. The child steps forward on his right leg and holds up his right hand in front of his father; his left is tucked into his sash. He has greyish-brown hair, and wears a pale grey hat, an all in one white suit scattered with groups of four blue dots, a red sash and black shoes. The dog is white with black patches.

Notes

History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth

Legal notes

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Place(s) associated

• Naples ⪼ Campania ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs

Dating

18th Century, Late
Circa 1785 CE - 1795 CE

Note

Although Naples is a place associated with both factories, at least one factory is also listed as being associated with the "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies".